[Cogadh na Sith]

We think, as a society, we are smarter, more scientific, and savvy enough that this will never happen again...

But we are doing the same thing as they did, right now, with Global Warming.

[blam]

Political correctness too. (And, calling everything racist)

[MeanWestTexan]

Yes, and no.

If I truly believed that a person was in legue with the Devil, and using powers of the Devil to kill other people — people I loved -— I could see knocking them off.

The distinction being that I do not believe the evil forces of the world work like that.

All that said, the untold part of the story is that several the little girls involved were actually dabbling in (what they believed to be) witchcraft taught to them by a slave that practised some sort of African pagan religion (probably something similar to what we’d now call VooDoo) -— starting the whole fiasco.

[Tribune7]

Things haven't changed all that much in Massachusetts

[KC_Conspirator]

We think, as a society, we are smarter, more scientific, and savvy enough that this will never happen again...

Duke LAX.

Actually the left acts like everyday is a Salem Witch trial, accusing Republicans of one thing or another.